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The Summer Palace is located in Haidian District, northwest of Beijing. It is the most complete and largest royal garden in China and one of the world famous tourist attractions, and belongs to the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The Summer Palace used to be the imperial palace and garden. In 1751, Qianlong was converted into Qingyi Garden here. In 1861, Qingyi Garden was burned by the British and French allied forces. In 1888, Empress Dowager Cixi used the navy funds of 31 million taels of silver to rebuild it, renamed it today, and made it a summer resort. By 1911, the Summer Palace was destroyed by the "Eight-Nation Alliance" and many buildings were burned down. Repaired in 1913. Later, during the rule of warlords and Kuomintang, it was destroyed again, and it was continuously repaired after liberation, which made this ancient garden rejuvenate.

The Summer Palace covers an area of 291 hectares (4,351 mu), of which the water surface accounts for about 3/4. The whole garden is centered on the Buddha Pavilion, which is 41 meters high on Wanshou Mountain. According to different locations and topography, it is equipped with exquisite buildings such as temples, halls, buildings, pavilions, corridors and pavilions. A 728-meter-long promenade was built at the foot of the mountain, just like a Ayabeni connecting various buildings, green hills and blue waves. The whole garden art is ingeniously conceived, which occupies a prominent position in the history of Chinese and foreign garden art and is a rare masterpiece of garden art in the world.

The Summer Palace is mainly composed of Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain. The total area is more than 291 hectares. The Buddhist incense pavilion and bronze pavilion built on Wanshou Mountain, the 1,111-meter-long gallery built near the lake, the 17-hole bridge in Kunming Lake and the stone boat are all must-see attractions for tourists. The Summer Palace is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, about 11 kilometers away from the city. You can take a suburban bus or a shuttle bus.

Several characteristics of the gardening art of the Summer Palace:

This huge garden is surrounded by mountains and waters, and Kunming Lake accounts for about 3/4 of the total garden area. However, its water surface is not monotonous. In addition to various buildings dotted around the lake, there is a South Lake Island in the lake, which is connected to the shore by a beautiful 17-hole bridge. In the west of the lake, there is a west dike, on which six beautifully shaped bridges are built.

There are many scenic spots in the Summer Palace that imitate some advantages of Jiangnan gardens. For example, the humorous garden is built in imitation of Wuxi Jichang Garden. The west dike is the Su Causeway imitating the West Lake in Hangzhou.

In the middle of the front hill of the Summer Palace, there is a group of huge buildings. From the Wisdom Sea at the top of the mountain, there are Foxiang Pavilion, Dehui Hall, Paiyun Hall, Paiyun Gate and Yunhui Yuyufang, which form an obvious central axis. On both sides of the central axis, there are many foil buildings. Down the mountain, there are many rockery tunnels, where visitors can walk up and down. The design pattern of the back mountain of the Summer Palace is quite different from that of the front mountain. The style of the front mountain is magnificent, while the back mountain wins with pine forest paths and small bridges.

The gate of the Summer Palace is called the East Palace Gate. A group of buildings centered on Renshou Hall in the East Palace Gate was the political activity area at that time. Renshou Hall, formerly known as Qinzheng Hall, is the main hall where the emperor sits and listens to politics. Cixi and Guangxu have summoned ministers and received foreign envoys here many times. Now the central part still preserves the original furnishings of the Qing Dynasty. The bronze dragons, phoenix and tripod displayed before the exhibition are all beautifully carved. To the north of Renshou Hall, there is a group of theater buildings. For the Dehe Garden and the Summer Palace, there are all kinds of ancient architectural forms. In the Summer Palace, almost all forms of ancient architecture are concentrated, such as pavilions, halls, halls, pavilions, towers and bridges. Besides wooden buildings, there are also bronze castings, stone masonry and glass inlays. The main buildings are: Foxiang Pavilion, 41 meters high, built on a 21-meter-high stone platform, which is magnificent. It is said that this huge building was rebuilt in 1891 after being burned by the British and French allied forces, and it cost 782,111 silver, which is the largest project in the Summer Palace. Boarding the Buddha Pavilion, you can get a panoramic view of the surrounding dozens of miles.

Pai Yun Dian is the most magnificent group of palace-style buildings in Qianshan, and it is the place where Cixi received congratulations on her birthday in the garden. Corridor, ***273 rooms, with a total length of 728 meters. It is near Wanshou Mountain in the north and Kunming Lake in the south. Walking along the promenade, you can enjoy the scenery of the lake and mountain, and every beam of the promenade is painted with colorful paintings for viewing.

Renshou Hall, where Cixi and Guangxu met with ministers during their stay in the Summer Palace, displays many valuable cultural relics. Le Shoutang is the place where Cixi lived in the garden. Indoor furnishings, basically maintain the face of the year. Several precious magnolia plants were planted in the courtyard, and a huge rock named Qingzhixiu was dotted.

Seventeen-span bridge, 151m long and 8m wide, is the largest bridge in the garden. The bridge has a beautiful shape. It is connected to Nanhu Island in the west and a corridor like a pavilion in the east, which is not only the only access to Nanhu Island, but also an important scenic spot in the lake area. There are more than 3,111 buildings in the Summer Palace. Besides the gardens, it is also important to visit the Summer Palace and enjoy various ancient buildings.

The Summer Palace, surrounded by mountains and water, is gorgeous. The thick green Wanshou Mountain stands on the north bank of Kunming Lake. Among the lakes and mountains, there are many exquisite buildings such as halls, buildings, pavilions, corridors, pavilions, pavilions and bridges. These buildings have their own characteristics in style. The layout of the whole park can be divided into political activity area, living area and scenic area.

The entrance to the Summer Palace (East Palace Gate) is the political activity area with Renshou Hall as the main body. Renshou Hall has a wide vestibule, lush pines and cypresses, and rocks and rockeries are dotted in it. The ancient bronze tripod and dragon and phoenix are on display in front of the steps. There is a bronze monster squatting on the stone beard seat in the hospital, which is the legendary Kirin. In the Qing Dynasty, this was the place where Cixi and Guangxu ministers met. Now the temple is still decorated as it was when the emperor was in the imperial court. The accessory halls on the north and south sides of Renshou Hall and the north and south group rooms outside Renshou Gate are the value rooms of six Jiuqing departments.

Around the back of Renshou Temple, it is the living area where Cixi, Guangxu and their empresses live. This is a group of three large quadrangles made up of fifty or sixty verandahs. Among them, Le Shou Tang, where Cixi lives, faces Kunming Lake in front and Wanshou Mountain in the back. It is set off by Dehe Garden Theater in the east and the entrance to the promenade in the west, which is the main part of the living and residential area. Leshou Hall is luxuriantly furnished, with fish tables made of pearl agate and jadeite, etc. On the south side of Renshou Hall is Yulan Hall where Guangxu lived. The backyard of Yulantang is Yifang Pavilion where Empress Guangxu lives. These three courtyards are all planted with exotic flowers and plants, especially the dozens of magnolia trees in front of Leshou Hall. The interior of Leshou Hall and Yulantang is displayed according to the original life of the Empress Dowager, and the exhibits are original. There is a brick wall in the annex halls on both sides of Yulantang, which was built by Cixi to imprison Guangxu after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898.

Go right along the flower terrace in the north of Renshou Hall, and you can reach Dehe Garden, which is composed of Yile Hall and Grand Theatre Building. There are more than 211 cultural relics on display in the Yile Hall. The theater building is very distinctive. The upturned angle, double eaves, bamboo columns and green columns are specially designed for Cixi to watch the play.

To the west of the residential area, there is a tourist area, which is the essence of the scenery of the Summer Palace. It is divided into three parts: Wanshou Mountain, Kunming Lake and Houshan Lake.

in front of Wanshou Mountain, a huge main building complex is formed with Buddha Pavilion with eight sides, three houses and four eaves as the center. From the "Yunhui Yuyu" archway on the shore of Kunming Lake to the north, it passes through Paiyunmen, Ergongmen, Paiyundian, Dehui Hall leading to the mountainside and Foxiang Pavilion, until the wisdom sea at the top of the mountain, forming a central axis that rises layer by layer. Pai Yun Dian occupies an important position on this central axis and is the place where Cixi celebrated her birthday. All kinds of bonsai and cultural relics displayed in the temple are mostly gifts from ministers on Cixi's seventieth birthday. The large oil painting of Cixi in the temple was painted by Ms. Carr of the United States when Cixi was 71 years old in 1915.

On the east side of the main building of Wanshou Mountain, there are the "Wheel Hidden" and the stone tablet of Kunming Lake in Wanshou Mountain, which is 9.88 meters high. On the west side, there are Wufang Pavilion and Baoyu Pavilion made of copper. Baoyu Pavilion is located on a sumeru pedestal carved with white marble. It is a rare and precious thing in the world, commonly known as the copper pavilion, with its beams, beams, arches, rafters and plaques, all of which, like the wooden structure, are crab blue and bronze, weighing 414 thousand Jin.

The Buddha Pavilion is built on a hillside more than 61 meters high, with a height of 38 meters. There are four Optimus Prime in the pavilion, which are 31 meters high and made of hard iron pear wood. The shape of Foxiang Pavilion is designed according to the Yellow Crane Tower. Standing in front of the Buddha Pavilion, you can see the lake and mountains.

along the foot of Qianshan Mountain, there is a painted corridor, starting from the Moon Inviting Gate of Leshou Hall in the east, passing through the Paiyun Gate, and reaching the Shizhang Pavilion at the western end of Wanshou Mountain, with a total length of 728 meters. There are four octagonal pavilions with double eaves, namely "Stay Good", "Send Lan", "Autumn Water" and "Qingyao" in the middle. Every beam of the promenade is covered with colorful paintings, including the scenery of the West Lake, landscape figures and flower feathers, which are like a colorful gallery, winding and connecting the buildings in the front hill.

The front of Wanshou Mountain faces the vast Kunming Lake. On the east bank, there are some scenic buildings such as Zhichun Pavilion, Wenchang Pavilion and Kuruting from north to south. Zhichun Pavilion, located on an island south of Yulantang, is surrounded by water and connected by bridges. The pavilion has double eaves and columns, which are elegant and chic. There is a stone pedestal on the bank of the pavilion, with a bronze cow lying on its back, its head held high and its ears erect, and its eyes staring at Kunming Lake. Nanhu Island in the water is connected by a 17-hole bridge and the East Embankment, like a rainbow flying across the sparkling blue waves. Nanhu Island is surrounded by stone fences, and Hanxu Hall stands high on the island. Hidden among the green trees. The west dike in the west of Kunming Lake was built according to the Su Causeway of Hangzhou West Lake. Peach willows are planted all over the embankment, and the famous Six Bridges on Xidi are hidden among the willows on the bank of the embankment. Among them, the jade belt bridge carved with white marble is towering and looks like a jade belt from a distance, with beautiful shape. The waters west of the west dike are divided into two lakes, north and south, by the short dike. There is Tuancheng Island in the northern lake and algae hall in the southern lake. Kunming Lake gradually gathers from north to south, and the east dike and the west dike meet at Xiuyi Bridge at the southern end. Kunming Lake is poured into the long river leading to Beijing from under this bridge.

In the northwest of Kunming Lake, on the bank of the west foot of Wanshou Mountain, there is a stone boat made of white stone carving called Qingyan Stone Boat. The hull is carved out of huge stones, with two-story cabins and five-color glass windows.

behind the mountains and lakes, there is a unique view of the south of the Yangtze River. In 1861 and 1911, the buildings in Houshan were destroyed by the imperialist invaders twice, leaving mostly abandoned platforms and abandoned foundations, and only pagodas with colorful glass still stood among the green trees. The Xiangyan Zongyin Sange on Houshan Mountain and the towers around it used to be a grand Tibetan temple. In front of it, there is a three-hole long bridge across Houhu Lake, and the north of the bridge is the North Palace Gate of the Summer Palace. The Houhu River on both sides of the bridge is the site of that year's trading street.

At the eastern end of Houhu Lake, there is a remote Zhai and a humorous garden called "Garden of Gardens". Tiaoyuanzhai has a high terrain, facing the street outside the wall in the south. It is said that Cixi watches the people go to Miaofeng Mountain to catch the meeting every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, so it is also called "Kanhui Building". The humorous garden was built in imitation of Wuxi Changyuan in Qianlong period, with a pool of clear water, graceful lotus leaves and thirteen pavilions connected by hundreds of verandahs around the shore. The drinking green waterside pavilion perched in the middle of the lake. Legend has it that it is a place for Cixi to fish for fun. Go east from the humorous garden, cross the "purple gas coming from the east" city gate, and it is not far from the East Palace Gate.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Wanshou Mountain was called Wengshan Mountain, and Kunming Lake was called Wengshanbo. In the Ming Dynasty, a Yuanjing Temple was built on Wengshan Mountain. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called Qingyi Garden. Wengshan Park was later renamed West Lake.

In order to celebrate the 61th birthday of his mother Niuzhilu, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty built a yanshou temple in Wengshan, changed it to Wanshou Mountain, and renamed the West Lake as Kunming Lake and the whole park as Qingyi Garden, following the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty practicing as a navy master in Kunming Pool in Chang 'an. Qingyi Garden was finally built in 1764, and it took fifteen years for * * * to consume more than 4.8 million yuan. In 186, the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, and the precious cultural relics in the garden were looted, and many Hongli buildings were burned.

During the Empress Dowager Cixi's "listening to politics behind the curtain", Prince Yi of Alcohol, the Prime Minister's naval affairs, began the project of restoring Qingyi Garden in the name of establishing a naval academy, and renamed it "Summer Palace" with the meaning of "supporting oneself and making peace". The project lasted for nearly ten years, and it was basically completed in 1895. In 1911, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, Cixi fled to Xi 'an with Guangxu, and the Summer Palace was destroyed. After Cixi returned to Beijing from Xi 'an, she used huge sums of money to repair the Summer Palace. It not only became the imperial garden for Cixi to spend the summer vacation, visit and celebrate her birthday in her later years, but also became her palace for internal affairs, diplomacy and political activities. In 1914, the Summer Palace was opened as a royal garden by the Qing royal family. In 1924, the late Qing emperor Puyi left Beijing and the Summer Palace was turned into a park.

There is Jingming Garden on the west side of the Summer Palace. There are towering Yuquan Mountain and the famous "Yuquan Tutu" spring in the park, which is one of the four famous gardens in the suburbs of Beijing.

Tickets: off-season (from October 1 to March 31 of the following year):

Ordinary tickets are for 21 yuan, and joint tickets are for 41 yuan.

Peak season (from April 1 to October 31 every year):

Ordinary ticket is 31 yuan and joint ticket is 51 yuan.

Tickets for Foxiang Pavilion, Suzhou Street and Dehe Garden remain unchanged, namely:

Foxiang Pavilion is RMB 11;

Suzhou Street 11 yuan;

Deheyuan 5 yuan; Monthly ticket 31 yuan;

Address: Summer Palace Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Best travel time: all year round

Opening hours: 6: 31-18: 11 in summer; Winter 7: 11-17: 11

Dining: There are Tingli Restaurant, Ruyi Restaurant, Zhichunting Restaurant, Tsinghua Xuan Restaurant and Nanhu Island Hanxutang Restaurant in the Summer Palace. In these places, there are usually many guests at lunchtime, and sometimes there are queues. However, there are convenience food outlets in many places in the park, which visitors can use as they buy. There are many restaurants outside the Summer Palace, both state-owned and private, with different sizes and food prices. There is also a McDonald's branch outside the North Palace Gate.

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